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Biographies

Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963

Historical Media

Document
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
March 1948

Events

Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa
24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce
24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948
Event
Basic Law for the Gaza Strip
25 February 1958 - 15 March 1958
Event
Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
9 December 1987
Event
Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement to Be Constructed
26 February 1997
Event
Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project
27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997
Event
Draft SC Res. S/1997/199 to Call on Israel to Refrain from Settlement Activities (Jabal Abu Ghunaym) Vetoed by US
7 March 1997
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Talks Deadlocked
10 March 1997 - 30 July 1997
Event
Draft SC Res. S/1997/241 to Demand that Israel Cease Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Vetoed by US
21 March 1997
Event
UNGA ES-10/2: Condemning Israel's Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement
25 April 1997
Event
Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998
Event
Assassination of Mas'ud Ayyad in Jabaliya
13 February 2001
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2001/270 Calling for Cessation of Settlement Activities and Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by US
27 March 2001
Event
Grave Escalation from Both Sides
9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002
Event
Assassination of Ali Ajuri and Murad Marshud in Jaba‘
8 June 2002
Event
Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza
15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003
Event
Assassination Attempt of Hamas Leadership, Including Ahmad Yasin, in Gaza City
6 September 2003
Event
Assassination of Mahmud Judeh in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
28 February 2004
Event
Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank
27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004
Event
Attempted Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City
18 August 2004
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2004/783 Condemning Israeli Broad Incursion in Northern Gaza Strip Vetoed by US
5 October 2004
Event
Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain
23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005
Event
Assassination of Shadi Suhail Muhanna and Muhammad Ahmad Kandeel in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
27 October 2005
Event
Assassination of Hassan Madhun and Fawzi Abu Qara’ in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
1 November 2005
Event
Assassination of Iyad Qadas and Iyad Najjar in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
8 December 2005
Event
Assassination of Hassan Asfour and Rami Hannoun East of Jabaliya Refugee Camp
6 February 2006
Event
Assassination of Imad Asaliyya and Majdi Hammad in Jabaliya
5 June 2006
Event
Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains
28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006
Event
Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials
29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006
Event
Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza
1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006
Event
Gaza Escalation Followed by a Negotiated Cease-Fire
20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006
Event
Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa
4 December 2007
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start
12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007
Event
The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion
17 December 2007
Event
Assassination of Amer Qarmout in Beit Lahiya
4 February 2008
Event
Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza
28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008
Event
Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen
18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1
27 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 2
28 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 3
29 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 6
1 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet
3 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2
4 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties
6 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 14
9 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks
10 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 17
12 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 18
13 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer
14 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 20
15 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises
4 May 2009
Event
Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem
2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009
Event
Cross-Border Violence, Gaza
20 September 2009 - 3 October 2009
Event
Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem
21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010
Event
Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity
26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010
Event
Israel Approves Settlement Expansion
2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011
Event
Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest
27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011
Event
Assassination of Abdullah al-Talbani in Jabaliya
27 December 2011
Event
Israel’s Settlement Activity
6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012
Event
Assassination of Ashraf Sabah and Hisham al-Saidani in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
13 October 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1
14 November 2012
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City
14 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza
14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 5
18 November 2012
Event
With or Without Negotiations, Israel Continues its Settlement Activities
30 May 2013 - 11 August 2013
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
Settlement Construction
30 January 2015
Event
Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure
27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016
Event
Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers
8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017
Event
Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad
22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018
Event
Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration
31 December 2019
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 1
10 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5
14 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7
16 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8
17 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10
19 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11
20 May 2021

Highlights

Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip
A Site of Continual Displacement
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority
1993-2000
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw

Places

Place
Jaba'

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza
2012

Historical Texts

Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199
7 March 1997
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241
21 March 1997
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270
26 March 2001
Document
Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783
5 October 2004
Document
Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019